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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:857-858
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Endomyocardial Biopsy in the Heterotopic Heart Transplant Patient

David A. Arzouman, MD, Francisco A. Arabia, MD, Gulshan K. Sethi, MD, Jack G. Copeland, MD

Section of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University Heart Center, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona, USA

Accepted for publication October 1, 1997.

Dr Arzouman, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave, Tucson, AZ 85724.

We present a technique for rapid and easy endomyocardial biopsy of the heterotopic transplanted heart. With a recent resurgence in heterotopic heart transplantation, we believe that ours is a sound technique in obtaining both routine surveillance biopsies as well as evaluating "right-sided pressures" in the "piggy-back" heart.




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